Apparatus for making soap solution



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APPARATUS FOR MAKING SOAP SOLUTION Filed March 20, 1929 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 ff l i I'Lenor' RoberMld Z6 1 Patented Mar. 18, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ROBERT M. BAGLEY, 0F HADDONFIELD, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE R. IVI. HOL- 4 LINGSHEAD CO., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY APPARATUS Fon MAKING soAP SOLUTION Application led MarchA 20, 1929. Serial No. 348,445..

My invention relates to a new and useful method of making soap solution and apparatus therefor, whereby solid soap may be converted into a soap solution without removing 5 the same from its original container in which the soap is originally packed and shipped.

With the above ends in view, my invention' consists in pouring the soft and warm soap from the kettles into suitable steel drums or similar containers having suitable opening at the top and having also suitable side opening at the bottom, and retaining or providing a suitable passageway in the mass of soap (by means of suitable removable cores or the like) between the top and bottom openings of the drum. After the soap has set or solidified, a suitable valve or faucet is secured to the lower opening in the drum and by pouring water into the passageway through the mass of soap, a suitable soap solution may be drawn off through the bottom opening in the drum, after the Water has been in contact with the soap for a suitable length of time.

For the purpose of illustrating my invention I have shown in the accompanying drawings forms thereof which are at present preferred by me, since the same have been found in practice to give satisfactory and reliable results, although it is to be understood that the various instrumentalities of which my invention consists can be variously arranged and organized and that my invention is not limited to the precise arrangement and organization of the instrumentalities as herein shown and described.y

Referring to the drawings, in which like reference characters indicate like parts Figure 1 represents i vertical sectional view of a drum of soap embodying my invention, shown as ready for shipment.

Figure 2`represents a similar vertical sectional view of the construction shown in Figure 1, with the drum arranged for use.

Figure 3 represents a vertical sectional view of a drum ofvsoap of slightly modied construction embodying my invention, in condition for shipment.

Figure 4 represents a similar vertical sectional view of the modification shown in Figure 3, in condition for use.

Figure 5 represents a vertical section of a soap drum, illustrating a modified embodiment of my invention; showing the drum iilled with soap and in asetting position.

Figure 6 represents a similar vertical sec-4 tional view; with the drum in position and condition ready for use.

Figure 7 represents a top plan view of the same.

In carrying out my invention I may utilize any suitable steel drum 1 having a suitably threaded opening 2 in the side wall thereof near the bottom. In the modification of my invention shown in Figures 1 and 2, the top 3 of the drum 1 is provided with a comparatively large central opening 5 as well as a smaller opening 4 near the edge of the top. The soap is filled into the drum through the large central opening. The soap, indicated by the numeral 6 is preferably a comparatively solid or hard soap which is filled vinto the drum while the soap is still in a fluid condition as received from the vator kettle. A vertical passageway 7 and a connecting horizontal passageway 8 are provided in the mass of soap as by suitably positioning corresponding Vertical and horizontal removable cores in the drum While the soap is being poured and then removing sad cores after the soap has set or solidified, or by any other suitable means.

In order to prepare a soap solution from the solid soap within the drum it is then merely necessary to pour a suitable quantity of water into the drum, lilling the passageways 7 and 8, and then drawing olf the water through said passageway and through the bottom opening of the drum, whenever desired.

The large central opening 5 in the top of the drum is preferably closed by a removable lid 9 suitably secured by bolts 10 or any other suitable means. The valve or faucet 11 is initially carried by a, plug 12 which closes the threaded opening 4 while the soap is in transit or while the same is being stored.

When it is desired to use the soap, the plug 12 is removed from the opening 4, the faucet 11 is unscrewed from the plug 12 and threaded into they opening 2 at the bottom of the drum in place of the plug 13 which closes the opening 2 while the soap is in transit or being stored.

Thus, Figure 1 illustrates the soap drum while in transit, while Figure 2 illustrates the soap drum while in use.

In Figures 3 and 4 I have illustrated a modified embodiment of the invention in which the small threaded opening 4 is provided in the lid 9 and where the faucet 11 is thus supported centrally while the soap is in transit.

The water is poured in through the small threaded opening 4 whether such opening is at the edge of the top of the drum as indicated in Figures 1 and 2, or whether such opening is in the center lid 9 as indicated in Figures 3 and 4.

In Figures 5, 6 and 7 I have illustrated a modified embodiment of my invention, in which the top opening 4 is placed along the edge of the top of the drum, on the same side as the bottom opening 2. The' fluid soap is filled in to. the drum through the top lid 9, leaving a suitable amount of vacant space above the soap and below the top of the drum. The'lid 9 is then iXedly secured to the to-p of the drum and the drum is then turned over on its side with the openings 2 and 4 on top as indicated in Figure 5. In this position the soap is allowed to set or harden, whereby a clear passageway is provided between the top and bottom openings 4 and 2 o-f the drum, adjacent the side wall of the drum.

The faucet of Figure 11 is applied to the drum in either one of the two positions shown in Figures 5 and 6 respectively, in a manner similar to that shown in Figures 1 and 2, and 3 and 4.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, iszv 1.v A container having an opening near the bottom thereof and having an opening near the top thereof, a body of solid soap in said container intermediate said two openings, a passageway intermediate said top and bottom openings and contiguous with said body of soap, and a faucet connected to said bottom opening; said passagewaybeing adapted to receive water for solubilizing the soap, and said faucet being adapted for drawing oil' the soap solution produced by said water.

2. A soap drum having an opening near the bottom thereof and an opening at the top thereof, a faucet detachably and inoperatively carried in said upper opening when the soap drum isin transit and being-adapted to bel detached therefrom and to be secured vto the lower opening when the soap drum is in use, a body of solid soap in said soap -druin intermediate said top and bottom openings, and a passageway intermediate said upper opening and said lower opening and contiguous with said body of soap, for the reception of water for solubilizing the solid soap.

3. Combined shipping and solubilizing container adapted for containing a body of a comparatively lsolid coherent material, which must be transformed into a solution preliminary to use, said container having a lower opening and an upper opening, a liquid closureinoperatively carried in one of said openings, when the latter container is in transit and being adapted to be disposed in operative relation to the lower opening, when the container is in use, a body of comparatively solid material in said container intermediate said upper land lower openings, and a passageway intermediate said upper and lower openings and contiguous with said body of comparatively solid material, for the reception of a liquid solvent for solubilizing said body of comparatively solid material.

4. Combined shipping and solubilizing container adapted for containing a body of a comparatively solid coherent material, which must be transformed into a solution preliminary to use, said container having a lower opening and an upper opening, a liquid closure inoperatively carried in one of said openings, when the container is in transit and being adapted to be disposed in operative relation to the lower o-pening, when the container is in use, a body of comparatively solid material in said container intermediate said upper and lower openings, and apassageway intermediate said upper and lower openings and extending through said body of comparatively vsolid material, for the reception of a liquid solvent for solubilizing said body of comparatively solid material.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 19th day of January, 1929.

. ROBERT M. BAGLEY. 

